Flight Pundit

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

Gregory “Pappy” Boyington

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One man with courage makes a majority

Andrew Jackson

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42 is the answer.

Repeat it enough times and it will be true. Right?

Oh wait, you were asking what the Press was saying about President Bush’s speech last night.
The Arizona Republic ran and an column (Post?) by David Westphal of McClatchy News Service (who ever they are?)
I thought the Arizona Republic had its own reporters. I guess I was wrong. They must have outsourced them.

Rose Colored glassless really shows that you hear what you want to hear. The first three paragraphs try to set the mood for the reader.

He acknowledged Americans’ fears about the war. He empathized with their frustrations about seemingly endless suicide bombings.

But with his political clout on the line, President Bush drew a line in the sand on Tuesday night about the war in Iraq, warning in a prime-time address that a hasty exit from the bloody insurgency would amount to waving a white flag in the face of Osama bin Laden and the cause of terrorism.

Bush’s speech before 82nd Airborne troops at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg was a pivotal one, not only for his ability to maintain support for an increasingly unpopular war but also for his overall second-term standing, which has hit rocky going just months after his re-election.

OK now I am depressed. I watched and re-watched (thanks Tivo) the speech and it was very uplifting and not at all this doom and gloom.

But back to a real quote that is right on the money.

“After September 11, 2001, I told the American people that the road ahead would be difficult and that we would prevail,” Bush said. “Well, it has been difficult. And we are prevailing.”

But the paper wants you to think we are not prevailing. David Westphal is dead wrong in what he wants you to think.

Then there are a few quotes put out of context and simplified (down to the 3rd grade level).

Why not send more troops? Because it would “undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead in this fight.”

how about the answer to the question David puts in here is because the Military (including the Commander in Chief) decided not to. go suck on that David.

Why not establish an exit timetable? “It would send the wrong message to the enemy, who would know that all they have to do is to wait us out.”

This is a question that the highly un-educated elitist leftist liberal progressive asks? are they that stupid…never mind.

Is Iraq really a “central front” in the fight against terror? Terrorists, he said, “know that the outcome will leave them emboldened or defeated.”

Well guess what, The War in Iraq (that American Military really is WINNING) is a part of the War on Terror.

Now AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHH Dean is very upset because President Bush mentioned the September 11 terror attacks.

Get over it. This is part of the war on Terror. Our brave men and women are winning the war and the peace. they are doing a great job and unfortunately for you President Bush by default gets the political credit. if the left can come up with options and alternatives we might listen. because we hear nothing but doom and gloom. What options do you see? None, oh go stand in the coroner.

See, doom and gloom.

Coming at a time when his own political standing has taken a beating, Bush’s speech was being closely watched to determine his ability to rally popular support for staying the course in Iraq. In a pre-speech survey by the Washington Post-ABC News poll, Americans overwhelmingly concluded that the United States is “bogged down” in Iraq; a smaller majority said the war has not been worth its cost.

Growing calls by the socialist left.

His answer that the Iraq conflict is “vital to the future security of our country” signaled Bush’s real mission on Tuesday night: to stiffen the nation’s spine and put an end to growing calls, some of them from his own party, to set a timetable for withdrawal.

And you leftist piece of shit support he troops. Right!

Bush’s flagging clout as Iraq war architect is due mostly to the inability of U.S. troops to quell an insurgency that the administration never expected to develop. But it also is related to the president’s post-inaugural decision to spend enormous amounts of political capital touting a Social Security plan that turned out to be a hard sell. Iraq has taken a back seat to Bush’s desire to make history overhauling Social Security.

Just in case you didn’t know that facts. Our troops are wining the War on Terror.
remember…

“After September 11, 2001, I told the American people that the road ahead would be difficult and that we would prevail,” Bush said. “Well, it has been difficult. And we are prevailing.”

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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Ronald Regan

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Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Ronald Regan

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Let the show begin. The actors and actresses are coming out of their makeup trailers, all fluffed and buffed and attempting to get us to recognize their names. Some of the names we all know, too well I hate to say.

WASHINGTON — Many Americans are planning time off this summer to take a break at the beach, the lake or in the mountains. But for those with political ambitions in 2008, the summer of 2005 is no time for kicking back.

“There’s no question about it. Presidential campaigns are starting earlier, certainly a couple years before the election,” said Stu Rothenberg of the Rothenberg Political Report.

Don’t all campaigns start early like this? Fund raising, cross country trips, elegant speeches…it’s all part of the show.

Sometimes, potential presidential candidates get started as early as four years before. Last November, then-Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards was readying himself for life as a private citizen after he and presidential running mate John Kerry lost the 2004 election.

Seven months later, Edwards is looking very much like a man running for president. Last week, the former North Carolina senator spoke at the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH annual convention in Chicago. Before that, in Iowa, he gave a campaign-like speech.

“We can create a symphony and that symphony can stir the soul of this country and we can end the injustice that’s poverty in America today!” Edwards told WOI-TV in Des Moines.

Oh puleeeze. Mr. Edwards. You would be better off getting a job as a real actor, doing one of those BRECK hair commercials.

Edwards is not alone. Democrats including New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Joe Biden of Delaware and Kerry of Massachusetts, and Republicans like Sens. Bill Frist of Tennessee, John McCain of Arizona and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani have all spent considerable time outside their home states.

Oh cool. Looking at this list of potential candidates, I think we need more fish in the bowl here. Polls are showing Giuliani and Shillary are at the top of their parties’ list. Great. I guess Giuliani would be better than Hillary, but he is not that different than her. Sadly, many Democrats say they would vote for John McCain. Interesting. I don’t know a lot about Senator Bill Frist, except that he is a doctor by profession. No where is anyone mentioning MA Gov. Mitt Romney, but I am pretty sure he will make a run. Joe Biden is too slick and slimey. He won’t win.

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Other than helping MIT I do not know what this means…
But I know I do not want to be a statistic only.

H/T: The Girl Next Store

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DC,
Happy Blogday to you.

You know it doesn’t make much sense
There ought to be a law against
Anyone who takes offense
At a day in your celebration
‘Cause we all know in our minds
That there ought to be a time
That we can set aside
To show just how much we love you
And I’m sure you will agree
It couldn’t fit more perfectly
Than to have a world party on the day you came to be

Chorus
Happy blogday to you
Happy blogday to you
Happy blogday
(Repeat)

I just never understood
How a man who died for good
Could not have a day that would
Be set aside for his recognition
Because it should never be
Just because some cannot see
The dream as clear as he
That they should make it become an illusion
And we all know everything
That he stood for time will bring
For in peace our hearts will sing
Thanks to Martin Luther King

Chorus
Happy blogday to you
Happy blogday to you
Happy blogday
(Repeat)

Bridge
Why has there never been a holiday
Where peace is celebrated
all throughout the world

The time is overdue
For people like me and you
You know the way to truth
Is love and unity to all God’s children
It should be a great event
And the whole day should be spent
In full remembrance
Of those who lived and died for the oneness of
all people
So let us all begin
We know that love can win
Let it out don’t hold it in
Sing it loud as you can

Chorus
Happy blogday to you
Happy blogday to you
Happy blogday
(4x)

(Background Stevie)
Happy blogdayOoh yeah
Happy blogday,
To you

We know the key to unity of all
People
Is in the dream that you had so
Long ago
That lives in all of the hearts
Of people
That believe in unity
We’ll make the dream become
A reality
I know we will
Because our hearts tell us so

Stevie Wonder

Go say Happy Blogday to DC.

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“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

— Bill Gates

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“We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership.”

— Bill Clinton
heh….

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“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Kit has an outstanding interview with a Marine.
Go read it.

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What is this? the next UN ploy to steal what we work hard for and give it to others. while it is sad that people are starving I think we could help by teaching them how to work the land (without overworking) reduce the pregnancies in areas that can not support the people.

Live 8 is a series of concerts and events across the world which are being staged to highlight the problem of global poverty. It’s a chance for ordinary people to call on world leaders at this year’s G8 summit and tell them to put a stop to the needless deaths of 30,000 children every single day.

OK, if you are lazy get off your ass and work. If you can not find work move to where the work is.

On 6th July 2005, the leaders of Great Britain, the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia will meet at Gleneagles in Scotland to talk about world affairs, including Africa. They will be presented with a workable plan to double aid, drop the debt and make trade laws fair.

OK so they want to tax me more and give it to people that don’t work for what we give them now. Damn I am sorry but why?

The G8 summit is our opportunity to demand that the world’s most influential leaders take action now.

This is a bunch of liberal/progressives with an idea out of reality. Our giving people money and food will not teach them how to make there own money or grow there own food.

Live 8 has organized concerts in Philadelphia, Berlin, London, Rome, Paris and Edinburgh, with 100 artists, a million spectators, two billion viewers and one message: Make Poverty History.

I would love to see Poverty become a thing of the past but not by me giving what I work for to someone that does not work.

I will give my Church (which has several current missions in Africa) an additional $100 for the missions. but I will not support this loony leftist socialist plan.

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The Democrats are all uptight about the announcement of a (cough) Republican to lead the Public Broadcasting Service. They are coming out of their caves in droves…attacking the new President of PBS, attacking
Congress for approving this as well as reinstating money to the organization.

WASHINGTON, June 23 - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting on Thursday appointed Patricia S. Harrison, a former co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, to be its next president and chief executive.

In acting, the corporation board brushed aside concerns from many public television and radio stations and Democratic lawmakers that choosing Ms. Harrison threatened to inject partisanship into an organization that is supposed to shield public broadcasting from political pressures.

Later on Thursday, the Republican-controlled House, by a vote of 284 to 140, approved a measure to restore $100 million that had been cut from the corporation’s $400 million budget last week by the House Appropriations Committee.

A key word here is that PBS is supposed to be for the PUBLIC. Not for POLITICS. Unfortunately, politics has taken over the programming. PBS is well known for it’s liberal slant, and it’s about time someone did something to add some balance.

The selection of Ms. Harrison comes at a time of political strife over the direction of public broadcasting. The corporation’s chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, has taken steps to correct what he and conservative critics see as liberal bias. Television and radio executives have responded by accusing Mr. Tomlinson of threatening their editorial independence.

No one is threatening anyone’s editorial independence. This is a typical scream theme reaction by liberals who have had control of the media for so long. They are slowly starting to lose this control. I guess I can’t be surprised by their reaction.

Among the Democratic critics were Senators Charles E. Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton, both of New York, and Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota.

“I think this is a huge mistake,” Mr. Dorgan said in an interview. “My sense is that this is going to do real injury to public broadcasting.”

Mr. Schumer said the decision “to turn PBS into a political mouthpiece is disgraceful and contrary to its years of distinguished public service.”

Sorry Mr. Schumer…where have you been? People tend to lose their ability to be objective when they surround themselves with like minded people. It’s called Group Think and the Dems have a bad case of it. They refuse to even consider that the media is biased because they all have the same ideals and values. There is nothing wrong with this, except when others have a differing point of view…they get attacked. The liberals act all shocked and awed and go into panic mode.

This isn’t NEWS to anyone who has been staying on top of PBS issues.

The selection of Ms. Harrison was not unexpected; Mr. Tomlinson said in an interview in April that she was his top choice. Scores of stations around the nation, as well as some Democratic members of Congress, urged the board to find another candidate, particularly in light of decisions by Mr. Tomlinson that are now under investigation by the inspector general of the corporation.

Investigators are looking at Mr. Tomlinson’s decision to retain a consultant to monitor the political leanings on the “Now” show with Bill Moyers, his decision to retain two Republican lobbyists last year and his use of a White House official to set up an corporation office of ombudsman that is supposed to judge the political balance and objectivity of shows on public television and radio.

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